Tag: Facebook
Facebook Whistleblower Launches Nonprofit To Take On Big Tech
Whistleblower Frances Haugen — a former Facebook engineer who leaked documents suggesting the firm put profits before user safety — launched a new organisation on Thursday,...
Facebook Parent Meta, Google Quietly Reduce Jobs
Two of the world’s largest tech companies have begun to quietly eliminate jobs as they endeavor to cut costs.
Facebook owner Meta Platforms has begun reorganizing departments and giving impacted...
EU Court Adviser Says German Watchdog Can Probe Meta’s Data Violations
In the latest blow to Facebook’s parent company Meta, an adviser to the European Union’s top court said Tuesday national competition regulators can investigate...
Meta Agrees To Settle Facebook Privacy Suit
Meta Platforms's Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties including Cambridge...
Facebook’s WilmerHale Seeks Over $2M In Fees In Data Suit
Lawyers for Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc have asked a California federal judge to award more than $2.73 million in legal fees for their...
Facebook To End Payments To US News Publishers
Major news organizations like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post are among the media outlets that will be...
Meta May Be Forced To Remove Facebook, Instagram From EU
Meta Platforms reiterated its warning that it may have to pull its popular Facebook and Instagram services from the European Union if a new...
FTC Sues To Block Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday filed for an injunction to block Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, from buying a virtual reality...
US Gov Panel Says Amazon, Facebook, Google Suppress Competition
New internal documents released by the US House Judiciary Committee have revealed how Amazon, Facebook and Google favoured their own products and abused their...
Meta Creates Sphere, An AI Tool Based On Open Web Content
Facebook may be infamous for helping to usher in the era of “fake news”; but it’s also tried to find a place for itself...
